UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS
Revised 3-1-07
Academic Program
Approval
This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs. Proposing department should complete this form. For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.
Brian Ackerman
2385
Submitted by: _____________________________________phone
number__________
Add a Bachelor of Science Degree
curriculum for majors
Action: _______________________________________________________________________________________
(Example: add major/minor/concentration, delete
major/minor/concentration, revise
major/minor/concentration, academic unit
name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)
06F
Effective term________________________________________________________________________________
(use format
04F, 05W)
BA
Current
degree___________________________________________________________
(Example: BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA,
BS
(in addition to BA)
Proposed change leads to the
degree of: ______________________________________
(Example: BA,
BACH, BACJ, HBA,
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Proposed
name:__________________________________________________________
Proposed new name for revised
or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit
(if
applicable)
Revising or Deleting:
Undergraduate
major / Concentration:_________________________________
(Example: Applied Music Instrumental degree BMAS)
Undergraduate
minor:_______________________________________________
(Example: African
Studies, Business Administration, English, Leadership, etc.)
Graduate Program
Policy statement change:____________________________
(Attach your Graduate
Program Policy Statement)
Graduate
Program of Study:__________________________________________
(Example: Animal
Science: MS Animal Science: PHD
Economics: MA Economics: PHD)
Graduate
minor / concentration:______________________________________
List program changes for
curriculum revisions:
Addition of a Bachelor of Science Degree Program to the existing Bachelor of Arts Degree Program. The BA Program will not change.
List new courses required for the
new or revised curriculum:
(Be aware that approval of the curriculum is
dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge
list. If there are no new courses enter None)
CURRICULUM
CREDITS
DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
MAJOR: PSYCHOLOGY
University Requirements:
ENGL 110 Critical
MULTICULTURAL COURSE 03
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS:
Foreign Language 00-12
Breadth Requirements 24 *
(Minimum of 6 credits each in Groups A & B;
12 credits in Group C)
SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT 03
SCIENCE CORE:
Biological Sciences 11*
Take these 3 courses:
BISC 207 Introductory Biology I 04
BISC 208 Introductory Biology II 04
BISC 306 General Physiology 03
BISC 207 will be taken in the Spring semester and 208 in the Fall semester, as per
agreement with the Biology Dept.
Chemistry and Physics 08*
Take two courses in sequence:
CHEM 103/104 General Chemistry or 08
PHYS 201/202 Introductory Physics I/II 08
Mathematics 03-04*
MATH 221 Calculus or 03
MATH 241 Analytic Geometry and Calculus A 04
Computer Science 03*
CISC 105 General Computer Science 03
Major Requirements:
PSYC 100 General Psychology 03
PSYC 207 Research Methods 03
PSYC 209 Measurement and Statistics 03
One of the following four courses: 03
PSYC 312 Learning and Motivation
PSYC 314 Brain and Behavior
PSYC 316 Biological Bases of Behavior
PSYC 320 Introduction to Neuroscience
One of the following three courses: 03
PSYC 310 Sensation and Perception
PSYC 340 Cognition
PSYC 344 Psychology of Language
One of the following two courses: 03
PSYC 350 Developmental Psychology
PSYC 380 Psychopathology
One of the following two courses: 03
PSYC 370 Research in Personality
PSYC 390 Social Psychology
PSYC 394 Cultural Psychology
Three courses at the 400-level or the 600-level: 09 *
Two courses of supervised research: 06 *
PSYC 468 Research or
UNIV 401/402 Thesis
A grade of C- or better is required in all BISC, CHEM, PHY, MATH, CISC, and PSYC courses.
* These components supplement the current BA curriculum by adding Science Background, specifying Calculus as a Math requirement, adding to the major one 400 level course, the possible substitution of 600 level courses, and the supervised research requirement. The University Thesis program will substitute for the PSYC 468 requirement. To compensate for the added course requirements, the new degree program reduces the number of credits needed to satisfy the Arts & Sciences General Education requirements by 6 in each of Groups A and B.
Other affected units:
(List other departments
affected by this new or revised curriculum.
Attach permission from the affected units. If no other unit is affected, enter None)
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematics
Computer Science
Rationale:
(Explain your reasons for
creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)
We
first explain our goals for this proposed Bachelor of Science Degree
Program. Then we describe and explain
the details.
Goals:
We propose a new Bachelor of
Science Degree Program for several reasons.
First, we would like to increase the number of students who apply to
graduate schools in psychology and the competitiveness of our best students for
entrance into top level graduate programs.
We can increase the number by emphasizing the science end of psychology
and the strong interrelations with other life sciences. Similarly, exposure to more physical science
and more opportunities for supervised independent research in our department
(e.g., through PSYC 468) will enhance competitiveness. Good graduate programs in Clinical Science
now, for instance, recruit students on the basis of their science interests and
demonstrated aptitude, and appreciate the Bachelor of Science degree.
Second, we would like to better
meet the needs of students with strong science backgrounds and interests who
change majors to Psychology because of changing career aspirations. Providing more opportunities to take upper
level and graduate courses and to do supervised research enhances the ability
of these students to craft specialty concentrations. The Bachelor of Science Degree Program thus
both channels and rewards their achievements.
Similarly, students in our undergraduate Neuroscience program, with
exceptionally strong science backgrounds, will welcome the new opportunity to
earn a Bachelor of Science degree rather than a BA.
More generally, third, we would
like to offer dedicated students the opportunity to engage in depth the
rigorous scientific approach to Psychology advocated by the faculty. A Bachelor of Science Degree Program serves a
rhetorical purpose in communicating that approach and will serve to recruit
select students away from the Bachelor of Arts program. As we develop the Bachelor of Science
Program, we plan to focus on providing exciting, rigorous, and sequenced
research experiences in our laboratories.
Finally, a Bachelor of Science
Degree Program dramatically enhances our competitiveness in applying for grants
from federal funded programs for undergraduate research and teaching in aspects
of psychological science. NIMH, for
example, has a program to enhance the undergraduate science training of
potential applicants to Clinical Science graduate programs.
Details:
The
proposed program requires students to take between 25 and 26 credits in courses
constituting the science background (11 in Biology, 8 in Chemistry or Physics,
and 6-7 in Computer Science and Math).
This total represents an increase of possibly 12 to 13 science credits
over the usual number for BA Psychology majors.
We also are requiring 6 extra credits in courses in Psychology, with 3
coming from an additional specialty seminar and 6 coming from two semesters of
quasi-independent supervised research (PSYC 468). The typical BA major also has 3 credits of
electives, which we are eliminating. To
partially compensate for the extra credits in the Science background and
Psychology components, we propose to reduce the number of credits necessary to
satisfy the Arts and Sciences Groups A and B requirements. Halving that number frees up 12 credits.
We expect to graduate about 10 students per year
with a BS degree. That figure would
constitute about 5% of our current Psychology majors. Many of these 10 students will be in our
current Neuroscience interdisciplinary program or will be students interested
in Biological Sciences as a major who migrated to Psychology.
Program Requirements:
(Show the new or revised
curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog. If this is a revision, be sure to indicate
the changes being made to the present curriculum.)
DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
MAJOR: PSYCHOLOGY
University Requirements:
ENGL 110 Critical
MULTICULTURAL COURSE 03
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS:
Foreign Language 00-12
Breadth Requirements 24
(Minimum of 6 credits each in Groups A & B;
12 credits in Group C)
SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT 03
SCIENCE CORE:
Biological Sciences 11
Take these 3 courses:
BISC 207 Introductory Biology I 04
BISC 208 Introductory Biology II 04
BISC 306 General Physiology 03
BISC 207 will be taken in the Spring semester and 208 in the Fall semester.
Chemistry and Physics 08
Take two courses in sequence:
CHEM 103/104 General Chemistry or 08
PHYS 201/202 Introductory Physics I/II 08
Mathematics 03-04
MATH 221 Calculus or 03
MATH 241 Analytic Geometry and Calculus A 04
Computer Science 03
CISC 105 General Computer Science 03
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:
PSYC 100 General Psychology 03
PSYC 207 Research Methods 03
PSYC 209 Measurement and Statistics 03
One of the following four courses: 03
PSYC 312 Learning and Motivation
PSYC 314 Brain and Behavior
PSYC 316 Biological Bases of Behavior
PSYC 320 Introduction to Neuroscience
One of the following three courses: 03
PSYC 310 Sensation and Perception
PSYC 340 Cognition
PSYC 344 Psychology of Language
One of the following two courses: 03
PSYC 350 Developmental Psychology
PSYC 380 Psychopathology
One of the following two courses: 03
PSYC 370 Research in Personality
PSYC 390 Social Psychology
PSYC 394 Cultural Psychology
Three courses at the 400-level or the 600-level: 09
Two courses of supervised research: 06
PSYC 468 Research or
UNIV 401/402 Thesis
A grade of C- or better is required in all BISC, CHEM, PHY, MATH, CISC, and PSYC courses.
ELECTIVES
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM
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